Holographic CFT phase transitions and criticality for rotating AdS black holes

Author(s)
Moaathe Belhaj Ahmed, Wan Cong, David Kubizňák, Robert B. Mann, Manus R. Visser
Abstract

Employing the novel exact dictionary between the laws of extended black hole thermodynamics and the laws of the dual CFT, we study the extended thermodynamics for CFT states that are dual to neutral singly-spinning asymptotically AdS black holes in d bulk spacetime dimensions. On the field theory side we include two independent pairs of thermodynamic conjugate variables: the central charge-chemical potential term and the pressure-volume term. In this setting we uncover various phase transitions and critical behaviour in the CFT, focusing on three different thermodynamic ensembles. Namely, for fixed angular momentum and central charge, we show there is a Van der Waals-like criticality for d = 4, 5 and reentrant phase transitions for d ≥ 6. At fixed angular velocity and central charge, there is a first-order (de)confinement phase transition in all dimensions d ≥ 3. Finally, at fixed angular momentum and chemical potential we find a plethora of zero-order phase transitions and unstable phases in both d = 4 and d = 6.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
University of Waterloo (UW), Charles University Prague, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2023
No. of pages
32
ISSN
1029-8479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.03161
Publication date
08-2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103012 High energy physics, 103028 Theory of relativity
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/holographic-cft-phase-transitions-and-criticality-for-rotating-ads-black-holes(b0f39c1d-6330-4150-9f7b-3a3abcae7e9f).html